Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing stories for both radio and web. He’s a city native and calls South Philadelphia home.
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With possibility of pope and DNC coming to town, Philly may extend DROP pay for key cops
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Philly congregations join to harbor undocumented immigrants
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Beloved tortoise missing from Germantown’s Wyck farm
Life around Wyck’s farm hasn’t been quite the same since Hans Haines Horsfield went missing. The male Russian to ...
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Community group scrambles to file charter-school application for GHS property
A grassroots group in Northwest Philadelphia wants to transform Germantown High School into an independent charter school serving neighbo ...
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Pending deal on former school building catches Germantown High neighbors off guard
A grassroots group in Northwest Philadelphia says it will fight to bring education back to Germantown High School. But it may have to win ...
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SRC approves Germantown High School sale to Md. developers
The Concordia Group, a Maryland-based development firm, now has the opportunity to buy several Philadelphia School District properties, i ...
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Mixing explosives with gravity – the controlled science behind implosions
In just 15 seconds on Saturday, Queen Lane Apartments vanished from the sky. A nearly 60-year stay in Philadelphia over in l ...
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ListenChange in Pa. laws sought after woman gets jail term for giving daughter ‘abortion pills’
A Montgomery County lawmaker wants to see Pennsylvania reform its abortion laws. State Sen. Daylin Leach said Wednesday that abort ...
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ACLU honoring Bucks students who fought use of ‘Redskins’ in high school paper
The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will honor staffers at a Bucks County high school student newspaper next m ...
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Why the 14-second Queen Lane Apartments implosion will sound like ‘a thunderbolt’
Fourteen seconds. That’s roughly how long it will take to reduce Queen Lane Apartments to a pile of rubble Saturday morning, ...
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